Issue 39, 2009

A study of phosphate absorption by magnesium iron hydroxycarbonate

Abstract

A study of the mechanism of phosphate adsorption by magnesium iron hydroxycarbonate, [Mg2.25Fe0.75(OH)6](CO3)0.37·0.65H2O over a range of pH has been carried out. The efficiency of the phosphate removal from aqueous solution has been investigated between pH 3–9 and the resulting solid phases have been studied by elemental analysis, XRD, FT-IR, Raman, HRTEM, EDX and solid-state MAS 31P NMR. The analytical and spectroscopic data suggest that phosphate removal from solution occurs not by anion intercalation of the relevant phosphorous oxyanion (H2PO4 or HPO42−) into the LDH but by the precipitation of either an insoluble iron hydrogen phosphate hydrate and/or a magnesium phosphate hydrate.

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 May 2009
Accepted
29 Jul 2009
First published
19 Aug 2009

Dalton Trans., 2009, 8197-8202

A study of phosphate absorption by magnesium iron hydroxycarbonate

Y. Du, N. Rees and D. O'Hare, Dalton Trans., 2009, 8197 DOI: 10.1039/B909853D

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